Virtuoso Amazon S3 Folder

What

Virtuoso's WebDAV implementation includes a special folder type for binding to Amazon S3 Services ("S3 Buckets").
ODS-Briefcase and any WebDAV client may work with these folders as if they were hosted directly in Virtuoso.

Why

Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface to a storage system that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data.
The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

By providing a WebDAV interface to Amazon's service, the Virtuoso Amazon S3 Folder brings access to this storage system to any operating system (and any application running therein) with a WebDAV filesystem driver.
This includes Windows ("Remote Directories"), Mac OS X ("Mount Server..."), Linux, and others.

How

Creation of Amazon S3 Folders

The folder is created just as other WebDAV folder, with some special properties:

Bucket Name (tab S3 Properties) — Optional setting.
Set to Amazon S3 Bucket name to retrict WebDAV access to that S3 Bucket (and any sub-buckets).
When not set (i.e., blank), all S3 Buckets available to this user are accessible through the WebDAV folder.